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Title: Three movies about... Post by: Reality on January 01, 2013, 08:02:50 AM Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
... . the main character reminds me so much of my son Moonrise Kingdom ... . the 2 main characters remind me so much of my son The Help ... . resonates with me because of similar discrimination, the judgment, the powerlessness, the society not opening it's doors to help, the nasty behavior... . not that I expected there would be help, I am not a whiner, yet there was very little... . Reality Title: Re: Three movies about... Post by: trainwreck4 on January 01, 2013, 08:43:59 AM I haven't seen the first two movies, but I can identify with the last one. This is a small community and there certainly is a stigma attached to this. I am amazed at how grown people are also shaking their heads and saying no this is not what I deal with, try so and so... . It is very isolating.
Title: Re: Three movies about... Post by: twojaybirds on January 01, 2013, 08:50:45 PM Here's a list I found a while ago:
FILM Not all of these movies are cinematic masterpieces, but they do portray (stereo-)typical BPD characters and behaviors: Boogie Nights Numerous brilliantly disordered performances -- esp. Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds -- in this really excellent film about the 70's porn industry and its denizens in search of "family." White Oleander Realistic and scary portrait of Michelle Pfeiffer as homicidal BPD mother whose daughter must grow up in foster care, and their troubled relationship. Mommie Dearest Eerily accurate portrait of BPD (w/NPD traits) Hollywood mother Joan Crawford. Based on the autobiographical book by Christina Crawford (who also wrote the intro to C. Lawson's Understanding the Borderline Mother) Girl, Interrupted (for the record: Angelina Jolie's character is a classic acting-out Borderline; Winona Ryder is less convincing as an acting-in Borderline in the title role) I recommend the book instead. What Lies Beneath Harrison Ford -- in an atypical role -- as gaslighting BPD husband Now, Voyager Film classic with Betty Davis, Claude Rains - middle-aged daughter of a shrewish, domineering BPD mother attempts to find her own path through therapy. Body Heat Kathleen Turner as seductress Maddy; William Hurt as a typically gullible non-Borderline -- great movie, too! Ordinary People Mary Tyler Moore is excellent as icy suburban BPD wife and mother who splits her sons and husband good/bad. Betty Blue Beatrice D'alle is brilliant as love-obsessed, self-injuring Betty, completely intertwined with her classically non-Borderline lover Zorg, in this gorgeous and tragic French film Gia: Too Beautiful to Die, Too Wild to Live (1998 HBO film, available on videotape) Directed by Michael Christofer, starring Angelina Jolie as the tragic supermodel Gia Marie Carangi. For my money, this biographical movie is the very best screen representation of a female Borderline, vastly more emotionally insightful than Fatal Attraction. Jolie is uncannily brilliant in this Golden-Globe-winning role (and has written about her own personal experience with self-injury). Fatal Attraction Glenn Close as raging Borderline mistress Sophie's Choice Kevin Kline as Sophie's (Meryl Streep) very convincing BPD/Addict lover. William Styron's novel is even better in its detailed character study. Single White Female Jennifer Jason Leigh is just TOO realistic as scary BPD roommate Sleeping with the Enemy Patrick Bergin as Borderline/OCD husband to Julia Roberts' terrified wife. Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone as the classic bisexual femme fatale) Black Widow Theresa Russell as 'serial wife' caught by an unstoppable Debra Winger The Effect of GammaRays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds www.amctv.com/show/detail/0,,8991-1-EST,00.html Joanne Woodward won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her portrayal of a domineering alcoholic mother of two teenage daughters in this film version of Paul Zindel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. All About Eve Brilliant story of friend-betraying actress/social-climber Eve Harrington, played to conniving, innocent-eyed perfection Anne Baxter. Brilliant, entertaining classic with Bette Davis as the betrayed mentor. Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte Bette again in a NonBP role; this time playing the victim of a scheming cousin out for her property. Great illustraton of 'gaslighting.' Play Misty for Me Obsessed onetime fling Jessica Walter stalks Clint Eastwood Borderline 2002 film with Gina Gershon, Michael Biehn Henry & June (Maria de Medeiros as Anais Nin) Breakfast at Tiffany's (Audrey Hepburn as Borderline-Lite Holly Golightly, trying to please everyone but herself, and terrified of love) After Hours Fabulous dark comedy with Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunne Frances (Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer) Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Diane Keaton: schoolteacher by day, cruising sex-addict by night) A Streetcar Named Desire (or any filmed fiction by Tennessee Williams -- "Blaaaaanche!" I've learned that all his protagonist have BPD Dangerous Liasons (John Malkovitch/Glenn Close as Borderline/NPD couple) Memento (Guy Pierce as dissociative amnesiac) Borderline Normal Depicts the effects of maternal parental alienation on the child of a divorcing couple. 2002 Really cheesy but clinically pretty accurate 1982 TV movie with Shannon Dougherty Obsessed "SHE said: They had an affair. They were in love. He was leaving his wife. HE said: It never happened. Who do you believe?" 2002 TV movie with Jenna Elfman I got this list from a site, the link is here: www.bpdresources.com/stockholm.html#Fiction |